Prescription Drugs
Commons · Question 29288 · Tabled 5 Feb 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care · Official record
Answered 13 Feb 2025
Question
Asked by Steve Yemm
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the effectiveness of the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence for reducing waiting times for medicines assessed though the cost-comparison approach.
Answer
Answered by Karin Smyth, 13 Feb 2025
The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) aims, wherever possible, to issue recommendations for the National Health Service on whether new medicines should be routinely funded around the time of licensing, to support rapid patient acces...